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"William Yeoward At Home" is all about enjoyment and the joie de vivre of living and entertaining. Whether it is supper for a couple of close friends, a weekend house party for ten or a birthday bash for a hundred, William Yeoward shows you how to create a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere in his usual inimitable and effortless way by revealing how he lives and entertains. Each chapter covers a different style of entertaining, and William highlights all you'll need for each occasion. "Rooms for Living" features the drawing room, living room and guest rooms, focusing on creating comfortable areas to make your guests feel at home. In "Weekend Guests and Entertaining", William offers his take on the essentials you'll need, whether hunting in winter or picnicking in summer. "Garden Living" covers hosting guests in the garden and summerhouse and how to create stylish outdoor settings. "City Living" features formal dinners in the dining room and relaxed evenings playing cards and backgammon.

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About the Author

William Yeoward has a worldwide reputation for designing collections for the home, and is particularly known for his imaginative table settings. He has shops in London and New York, lectures on design throughout the United States, and his work is featured in magazines such as Town and Country, Elle Decor (for whom he is a contributing editor), House and Garden, Vogue Living and Vogue Entertaining. His previous books include Perfect Tables, William Yeoward on Entertaining and The Perfect Host.

Top customer reviews

William Yeoward's jewel of a shop on Chelsea's King's Road is justly famous amongst design devotees. The bright purple storefront leads to an interiors treasure trove crammed with extraordinary colour and texture, and the most beautiful tableware and interiors accessories you can imagine.

Unfortunately the shop is SO expensive that I've never bought a thing there - just filched multiple copies of Yeoward's dazzling product catalogues for my "just in case I win the lottery" scrapbook.

Well, set of balls number 7, I could really do with that win now.

'William Yeoward At Home' invites even greater lifestyle envy than his shop. It features Yeoward's country house (a Victorian Gothick schoolhouse and attached cottage) and his London mansion flat. Both are highly decorated, and truly gorgeous. Covet his vintage kitchenalia and trademark glass and crystal collections. Admire his zingy polka dot cushions, his Indian embroidered textiles, and his luscious dining chairs (each one upholstered in a different sweetie-coloured velvet, and often in contrasting fabrics front and back). Yeoward's very English Wiltshire garden is fabulous, and beautifully photographed. His guest cottage is the epitome of rural cuteness, but refreshed in a pastel palette that renders Farrow and Ball's many shades of murk instantly depressing. Yeoward's city flat is sleeker and more modern, and showcases his own range of furniture, much of it insanely desirable. Despite my inability to afford any Yeoward products of my own, I'm really delighted with this book.

Don't expect to use this book as a 'how to' guide, however. Sticklers for English etiquette will know that a man is never "at home", and Yeoward certainly lacks a woman's eye for practicality. Page 81, for example, features a guest bathroom both carpeted and wallpapered, so he clearly doesn't have many visitors. His London bedroom's chestnut panelling is oppressive, and already looks dated. The kindest thing you can say about the kitchen in his flat is that you could at least cook in it. The elaborate curtains in Yeoward's drawing room would be spectacular in a Maharaja's palace, but seem rather desperate to impress in a Wiltshire schoolhouse. He has too many rugs, more picture lights than the National Gallery, and a lot of very mumsy nicky-nacky-noos.

These occasional lapses of taste aside, this book is still worthy of a 5-star rating. For fans of very traditional English interiors, it's an inspiring and energising visual feast: you will be re-covering your cushions before you've even finished reading. For fans of William Yeoward, this book is the very best record of his distinctive signature style, and absolutely a must-buy.

If you buy this book thinking it will all be in the same style as its cover, know that the first part focuses on William Yeoward's country home, the second on his city one - which is totally different and more modern. There is also very little information about the art of entertaining (the focus is almost entirely on decoration). I enjoyed it, but just not quite as much as I had hoped.

I ordered this book as soon as I heard of it. I am a great admirer to William's style and have seen his houses in magazines over the years. When it arrived I sat down and devoured it. I loved it, in fact I want to be William's friend - oh for the chance to be entertained in that lovely Cotswold home. Lucky people who have been there. However, the next best thing it to buy the book and move temporarily in a wonderfully decorative world.

Great book, beautiful photography and well written. Text easy to read, not technical or demanding attention just easy and light!Falls off towards end as first half on country home very good, second half feels as though written to pad book out!? But DO NOT let this put you off as a great 'pick up and put down' read. If you appreciate William Yeoward's style you will find his homes insirational.

Since the Royal Wedding, Her Majesty's Jubilee, The Olympics, Downton Abbey, documentaries showing the marvellous way in which Chatsworth and Blenheim are run Great Britain is a truly great place. Williams amazing book portrays a fantastic professional life in I.D showing many of his beautiful products from his own ranges in his own homes. The crystal is utterly splendid and it is a priveledge to have seen on many dining tables and the finest retail outlets here and in USA. I hope many many more buy this great book and follow Williams business philosophies in their own fields

Beautiful colourful book about William Yeoward's house in the country and his home in London. He talks about why he decorated it the way he has, his colour choices etc. A lovely book which anyone can emulate, from the bedrooms with his love of symmetry and his table decoration when having a summer meal. He uses a lot of pattern, texture and colour but somehow it all seems to work rather well. Great little purchase. Arrived promptly and well packaged as usual.

A beautiful book - I wouldn't have paid full price for it but at £12 it's virtually new! William Yeoward has exquisite taste and loves beautiful things - so do I but without his budget! This is an aspirational and inspirational book - lovely to curl up with and dream, whilst at the same time translating his home decor ideas to my own humble abode!